-By Warner Todd Huston
This November the city of Chicago racked up its 700th murder with well over 600 of them killed by gunfire. And yet, Chicago’s Mayor, former Obama chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, held a big press conference to insist that his city will remain a law-breaking “sanctuary city” and that illegals will be “safe” there.
Chicago is infamous as the city in the U.S. least friendly to the Constitution and its citizens’ Second Amendment rights. But despite the strict, anti-gun rules sponsored by the city council and backed by the state legislature, between January one and November 14 there have been 3,871 shootings. Of that number nearly 700 were shot and killed.
In August of this year the city suffered its deadliest month in 20 years with 472 shootings in just that one month alone. That number included 90 fatalities.
The number of shootings equates to a shocking 12 victims every day thus far this year.
But even as the bloodshed continues in the Windy City, quite despite the mayor’s efforts to quash the rights of average, everyday citizens, Mayor Emanuel put on his best far left, PC veneer in order to pander to the illegal alien community and proclaim his city “safe” for law-breaking illegals.
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In Murder City U.S.A., Chicago’s Mayor Says Illegals are ‘Safe’ in His ‘Sanctuary City’”